[mou] Byllesby, 140th and Murphy again..12 Warblers

[Chris Fagyal]

Murphy was quite active this morning as I walked the 1-2-3 loop at the 
entrance parking lot.  Amongst the bird seen were:

Cerulean Warbler (at least 5 different ones)
American Redstart
Black-and-White warbler
Ovenbird
Blackburnian Warbler
Northern Parula
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler

Non-warblers included: Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Least 
Flycatcher, Great-crested Flycatcher, lots of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, etc..

Also of note was a nesting Common Loon that can be seen on her nest from 
the trail just past the intersection on 1 if one takes the left fork.  
The nest is some 100-150 yards out in the middle of the lake.

140th was much more active in terms of shorebirds with the following 
species present:

Bairds Sandpiper (1)
Least Sandpiper (lots)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (5 or so)
Pectoral Sandpiper (15ish)
Greater Yellowlegs (1)
Lesser Yellowlegs (7)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)

The Hawk nesting on one of the power-line towers is indeed a Red-Tailed 
Hawk (for those who were there yesterday when it was hunkered down...) 
It was standing near the nest today and then took off, called several 
times, and soared overhead.

Byllesby had TONS of shorebirds, though mostly Yellowlegs, the following 
was present:

Greater Yellowlegs (several)
Lesser Yellowlegs (at least 250)
Dunlin (1)
Willet (2)
Semipalmated Plover (7) --- No Piping Plover was located in 45 minutes 
of scanning through all visible shorebirds
Short-billed Dowitcher (1)
Long-billed Dowitcher (2)
Least Sandpiper (Lots)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (many)
Baird's Sandpiper (several)
Wilson's Phalarope (1 foraging with the yellowlegs in the mud flats..not 
spinng like i'm used to seeing)

Non-shorebirds included 17 Forster's Terns, 21 American White Pelicans, 
various of the common ducks (Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, 10 
Gadwall), and a Blue-headed Vireo in one of the bushes near the 
entrance.  Also a fly-by Baltimore Oriole as I was leaving.

Chris Fagyal
Otsego, MN